The Rhubarb Triangle Line

Thanks for posting that. I look forward to updates, in due course.

Must admit that I have a soft spot for the idea of garden railways. Indoors 4mm to the foot is about as large as I can fit in comfortably. Although some people in the UK have done OO garden layouts, I think the climate, vegetation and wildlife where I live would be a bit fierce for smaller scale garden layouts.

No problem Richard, we are progressing but I am a bit behind with the story so you will have to bear with me

Next job was to talk to a landscape gardener to get a price. The idea at this point was to plan this year and do next year - plans change!

While talking to the landscaper I asked about recycling and when he said that they didn't have room to store it and that it all went for crushing we decided to recycle as much as we could ourselves offering friends and neighbours anything that we couldn't make use of.

This is what the garden looked like after a couple of months of recycling upheaval.

The landscapers were supposed to start on 26th of August (Bank holiday Monday) but we got a call on the Sunday afternoon asking if they could start 4 days later on the Friday as they were behind on a previous job. We agreed to this (I am not sure what he would have done if we hadn't - probably just not turned up).

But to give credit where it's due they arrived as promised at 8:30 on the Friday and this is what the garden looked like at lunchtime on day one.

When the landscapers left on the Friday night we had the weekend to straighten out the two sections of decking that had been built around the raised bed which was no longer there.

This was the end of day one.

And a few shots of the straightening of the decking....







It tidied up quite nicely in the end.

Crikey, it looks like you're building a model Crossrail

Best wishes with it, I'm trying to work out whether I can afford an outdoor set up. At least by the time I've saved up it will be summer again, but not necessarily next summer!

Edit to add:

Hope you don't mind, but here's my Rhubarb line:

Next we are on to day two of the landscapers efforts

Then we move onto day three and it starts to come together. It's a bit photo intensive but I was quite please by this point!

Day four, the last day of work by the landscapers finished of all the outstanding bits and pieces.

























And last but not least the track plan!

This next posting just about brings us up to date. Fast forward to last Thursday and the board that I am using for the track bed arrived. These are Medite Tricoya MDF which is guaranteed about ground for 50 years - not cheap at £138 for an 8 x 4 sheet (and they are 8 x 4 not the metric equivalent!). Chris worked out that we could get all that we needed from 4 sheets and she was right....

Thursday and Friday evenings were spent cutting out the curves.













Once they were all cut out we put them together to check that they did indeed make a circle.



We then tested the route around the garden.

The rest of the timber and metpost spikes were delivered yesterday morning. So following on from the photo's above, I cut out all the straight sections from some of the off cuts and we then arranged the spikes to see where the posts would go.















The plan to day is to start getting the posts and the supports in place while the weather is still kind.

QUOTE (Iarnrod @ 29 Sep 2013, 13:25) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I'm afraid my Rhubarb Line was an April Fool's Day stunt. The tube is a lavatory paper inner & that is as far as the track goes. The rhubarb was very tasty, though...

I like it

A start was made today in getting the track bed laid. The first job was to put some decking boards across the stream bed to make it easier to step across.

Then we moved on to getting the first metpost in to get the styarting level and we were off...

Wow... Looks amazing! And in only 3 days

We managed to crack on a bit more this evening before we ran out of light.





Just to show how dark it was when we finished!